Submission of Intellect and its Excellence

Sign of Perfection of Intellect

Merit of Knowledge and the Scholar and the Obligation of Knowledge

Reward of the Scholar and the Seeker of Knowledge

Attributes of the Scholar

Asking the Scholar and Discussing with Him

Prohibition on Speaking without Knowledge and Ruling based on Opinion

Accountability of the Scholar and its Severity

Miscellaneous from the Book of Intellect and Knowledge‎

Transmitting the Narration Non-Verbatim

Prohibition of Blind Following

Regarding Innovation and Analogical Reasoning

Ruling of Everything is in the Book and the Sunna

Prohibition on Debate and Argumentation

Some of the Reasons for Differences in the Narrations

Fitting Response Appropriate to the Understanding of the Questioner and the Addressee

No Excuse for the Ignorant One who Falls Short

Narration that Contradicts the Qur’an

Prohibition of Giving Fatwa without Knowledge and Evidence

Everything has a Ruling in the Book and the Sunna

Permanence of the Halal and the Haram unto the Day of Judgment

What Can be Used to Infer some General Principles

Authoritativeness of the Book and the Sunna

Principle of Precaution

Authoritativeness of the Solitary Report of a Truthful Narrator

Principle of “Whomsoever it reaches …”

Necessity of Comparing the Hadith with the Qur’an

Judging Conflict between Narrations

Reasons for Differences between Narrations

Invalidation of Analogical Reasoning

Primary Doubts

Principle of Continuity

Legal Injunctions are Predicated on Pubescence

Principle of ’No Harm’

Ijtihad

Lapsing of both Injunctive and Declaratory Rulings in Cases of Necessity

Some Rulings which are Time-Bound

Precedence is Given to what has been Established by the Qur’an over the Sunna

One of the Reasons for Differences between Narrations

Principle of Impartiality

What has been Lifted from the Umma

Aban b. Taghlib

Ibrahim b. Abi Mahmud

Ibrahim b. Abda

Ahmad b. Hammad al-Marwazi and his son Muhammad

Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Abi Nasr al-Bazanti

Usama b. Zayd

Ishaq b. Ammar

Ismail b. Ja`far and Abdallah b. Sharik

Bazi`, al-Sarri, Bashshar and Bayan

Bukayr

al-Hakam, Salama, Kathir, Salim and Abu al-Miqdam

Abu Sasan, Ammar, Shatira and Abu Amra

Jabir b. Abdallah al-Ansari and Jabir b. Yazid al-Ju`fi

al-Ash`ath, Jarir and Simak

Ja`far b. Isa, Salih and Abu al-Asad

al-Harith b. al-Mughira

Hariz and Hudhayfa

Hasan al-Muthalath

Abu Ali b. Rashid and Ali b. al-Husayn b. Abd Rabbi

al-Hasan and al-Husayn the two sons of Zurara

al-Husayn b. Qayama

al-Husayn b. Mihran

al-Hakam b. Utayba

Hammad b. Isa

Humran b. A`yan

Hamza b. Bazi`

Hayyan al-Sarraj

Khuzayma b. Thabit

Khayran al-Khadim

Dawud b. Farqad and Harun b. Sa`d

Dharih b. Muhammad al-Muharibi

al-Rayyan b. al-Salt

Zurara b. A`yan

Zakariyya b. Sabur

Ziyad b. Marwan al-Qandi

Ziyad b. al-Mundhir Abu al-Jarud

Zayd b. Ali

Salim b. Mukram

Sukayn al-Nakhai

Simak b. Kharasha

Sahl b. Hunayf

Salih b. Muhammad b. Sahl

Sa`sa`a b. Suhan

Safwan b. Mihran al-Jammal

Safwan b. Yahya

Dhurays b. Abd al-Malik

A`sim b. Umar al-Bajali and Ka`b al-Ahbar

`Amir b. Wathila

`Abbad al-Basri

Abd al-Hamid b. Salim and Muhammad b. Ismail b. Bazi`

Abd al-Khaliq b. Abd Rabbi

Abdallah b. Abi Ya`fur

Abdallah b. al-Imam al-Sadiq

Abdallah b. Jundab

Abdallah b. al-Hasan b. al-Hasan al-Mujtaba

Abdallah b. Saba

Abdallah b. Shubruma

Abdallah b. Ajlan and Muyassir b. Abd al-Aziz

Abdallah b. Umayr al-Laythi

[1541/1] الكافي: علي، عن أبيه، عن عبدالله بن المغيرة، عن سماعة بن مهران قال: قال أبو عبدالله عليه السلام: إن العزيز الجبار أنزل عليكم كتابه وهو الصادق البار، فيه خبركم وخبر من قبلكم وخبر من بعدكم وخبر السماء والارض ولو أتاكم من يخبركم عن ذلك لتعجبتم

[1/1541] al-Kafi: Ali from his father from Abdallah b. al-Mughira from Sama’a b. Mihran who said: Abu Abdillah عليه السلام said: Verily the All-Mighty and Most-Powerful has sent down unto you His Book, and He is Truthful and Good. In it is news of you, news of those who came before you, news of those who will come after you, and news of Heaven and Earth. If there comes to you one who can inform you of that you will be amazed

[1542/2] الكافي: حميد بن زياد، عن الحسن بن محمد، عن وهيب بن حفص، عن أبي بصير قال: سمعت أبا عبدالله عليه السلام يقول: إن القرآن زاجر وآمر يأمر بالجنة ويزجر عن النار

[2/1542] al-Kafi: Humayd b. Ziyad from al-Hasan b. Muhammad from Wuhayb b. Hafs from Abi Basir who said: I heard Aba Abdillah عليه السلام saying: The Qur’an is a Chaser and a Caller. It calls to the Garden and chases away from the Fire

[1543/3] الكافي: علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن ابن أبي عمير، عن إبراهيم بن عبدالحميد عن إسحاق بن غالب قال: قال أبوعبدالله عليه السلام: إذا جمع الله عزو جل الاولين و الآخرين إذا هم بشخص قد أقبل لم ير قط أحسن صورة منه فإذا نظر إليه المؤمنون وهو القرآن قالوا: هذا منا، هذا أحسن شئ رأينا فإذا انتهى إليهم جازهم، ثم ينظر إليه الشهداء حتى إذا انتهى إلى آخرهم جازهم فيقولون: هذا القرآن، فيجوزهم كلهم حتى إذا انتهى إلى المرسلين فيقولون: هذا القرآن، فيجوزهم حتى ينتهي إلى الملائكة فيقولون: هذا القرآن فيجوزهم (ثم ينتهي) حتى يقف عن يمين العرش فيقول الجبار: وعزتي وجلالي وارتفاع مكاني لاكرمن اليوم من أكرمك ولا هينن من أهانك

[3/1543] al-Kafi: Ali b. Ibrahim from his father from Ibn Abi Umayr from Ibrahim b. Abd al-Hamid from Ishaq b. Ghalib who said: Abu Abdillah عليه السلام said: When Allah Mighty and Majestic gathers the first ones and the last ones, they will behold a person drawing near, a more handsome form than his has never been seen (before).  So when the believers will gaze at him - and it is the Qur’an - they will say ‘this is one of us! this is the most handsome thing we have seen!’ - but when he reaches them (their ranks) he will go beyond them. Then the martyrs will gaze at him, until when he reaches the last of them - he will go beyond them, they will (then) say ‘this is the Qur’an!’ He will go beyond them all until he reaches the Messengers, they will say ‘this is the Qur’an’ He will go beyond them until he reaches the angels, they will say ‘this is the Qur’an’ He will go beyond them, until he comes to stand on the right-side of the Throne, whereupon the Most-Powerful will proclaim: ‘By My Might and Majesty, and the loftiness of My position, I will honour today the one who honoured you, and debase the one who debased you’

[1544/4] الكافي: عدة من أصحابنا، عن أحمد بن محمد وسهل بن زياد، جميعا، عن ابن محبوب عن جميل بن صالح، عن الفضيل بن يسار، عن أبي عبدالله عليه السلام قال: الحافظ للقرآن العامل به مع السفرة الكرام البررة

[4/1544] al-Kafi: A number of our companions from Ahmad b. Muhammad and Sahl b. Ziyad all together from Ibn Mahbub from Jamil b. Salih from al-Fudhayl b. Yasar from Abi Abdillahعليه السلام who said: The one who has memorized the Qur’an and acts upon it is with the Honourable and Virtuous Scribes

[1545/5] الكافي: عدة من أصحابنا، عن أحمد بن محمد وسهل بن زياد، جميعا، عن ابن محبوب، عن جميل بن صالح، عن الفضيل بن يسار، عن أبي عبدالله عليه السلام قال: سمعته يقول: إن الذي يعالج القرآن ويحفظه بمشقة منه وقلة حفظ له أجران

[5/1545] al-Kafi: A number of our companions from Ahmad b. Muhammad and Sahl b. Ziyad all together from Ibn Mahbub from Jamil b. Salih from al-Fudhayl b. Yasar from Abi Abdillahعليه السلام. He (Fudhayl) said: I heard him (i.e. the Imam) say: The one who labours over the Qur’an and memorizes it with great difficulty on his part and having poor memory - for him is double the reward

Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara

Book 5, Chapter 1